Comments about ‘Utah Jazz: Iranian team finds support at Revue’

As an iranian i salute the Utah Jazz for being such gracious hosts. I was not
expecting such a wonderful gesture at halftime. The commentators were also very
good and respectful as well. As a nugget fan it will be very hard to root
against the jazz this coming season after this display:D

I was at the game last night and found the support of Iran's team to be very
amazing. Except for the Kazoo (which happened to be about 3 rows back from
me...my ears are still ringing), I wish the Jazz fans would cheer on their team
in the same way. If I lived in another country and the USA basketball team came
to that country to play and I were in attendance, I'd wave my flag too. I
thought it was very patriotic and a fresh look at basketball. I compliment the
Iran team fans and Iran's team. It was interesting to see the stark contrast
between the Jazz players, who are playing for large contracts and money, with
the players from Iran who were playing for the pride of their small country. If
only the Jazz players played with the same heart we'd win the championship every
year.

It seems doubtful to me that Iran will go far in the Olympics
if they are having a hard time keeping up with summer league teams.
Nevertheless, I wish them well.

i'm an iranian and i was born here and i cheered for my country to the fullest.i
waved flags because thats where my parents are from and i'm so proud to be an
iranian teenager living in another country. living in u.s doesn't matter the
only thing that matters is where you are from and cheering for my country is a
pride.i had the best time and i was so happy that i could see people from my
country that bring pride for us iranians in foreign countries. this will
probebly never happen again but i'm greatful that it did and i'm a jazz fan but
when it comes to choose btw. my country and jazz i choose my country iran.thanks to the jazz

You're waiting for the next Byron Russell? Don't get me wrong, he served a good
role for the Jazz but he never had the athleticisim to give the Jazz another
dimension to the offense like Ronnie Brewer does.

The information you wished to see was in there, it was about the same
information as all the other games' information. The main story was the human
interest story. How arrogant and culturally biased are you if you believe
that they should not waive the Iranian flag. I guess you think that in the
Olympics, nobody should wave the American flag, because they need to respect the
Chinese. Or, if you live in New York, for example, you should not wear any Utah
Jazz apparel at a Jazz/Knicks game. The halftime ceremony was very
emotional. I am an American, and the gesture that the Jazz did almost brought
me to tears. This was a great story about basketball overcoming supposed
differences. I hope that this event will help open the hearts of the citizens
and leaders of both countries so that we can respect each other. We can then
focus on the positive relationships.

I love different cultures. I am about as American as you can get, but I have
lived in many different places, and people are great in most places in the
world. When I was in Europe, I became close friends with Iranians. Friendship
means a lot more to them than it does to Americans. I hope Iran does well in the
olympics even though it isn't likely. Jazz, that was impressive to show them
that kind of respect.

Great story and wounderfull actions taken by both sides to show that after all
we are all human beings sharing the same plant and sharing the same problems and
feelings. This shows that it is only politics and politicians who try to make us
hate other people from other countries. and we have to be educated enough not to
fall for that hate ingnited by politicians all over the world.

I am glad the team from Iran was well treated. It also made national news. We
have a number of people that came here in the 70's from Iran. All the people I
know from Iran are very nice. They are here, in many cases because of who is in
power over there now. Many have become US citizens, but still have friends and
family there.

ok so i suppose that no one will be waving US flag in china. ofcourse i ll cheer
for the country where my parents are from and my parents came here to go to
college and they never planned on living here forever and iran is a great
country. you don't have to judge everything by the goverment. if iran will
comeback next year for other games, i will go cheer for them and wave my flag
and actually i will get a bigger flag and lots of my american friends came to
the jazz game with me and cheered for iran because of me and all iranians that
live in utah are the jazz fan too. i am a big fan of jazz myself.

It doesn't matter where you go, there is always people that are racist, selfish,
clueless, etc... Iranian people, just like all types of people, deserve respect.
We are all human beings!!! It's a free country, so cheer for the team you like.
This is a nation of immigrants. If my family was from Iran, I would support that
country to.